First Oregon standoff defendant pleads guilty (with LaVoy Finicum when he took down spy cams)

OregonLive ^ | 5/12/2016 | Maxine Bernstein

[Nextrush]

Scott Willingham, who was part of the security team during the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing government property.

Willingham was accused of taking or converting government-owned cameras for his own use. He faced two counts of theft of government property but entered a guilty plea in federal court in Portland to one count. The other was dismissed.

Willingham hasn't been charged in the larger conspiracy case stemming from the Jan. 2 refuge takeover, but is the 27th person to face federal indictment in the 41-day occupation of the wildlife sanctuary outside Burns.

He's the first refuge defendant to enter a guilty plea.

Willingham, 49, was with occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum on Jan. 15 when Finicum took down surveillance cameras at a substation six miles from Burns.

[Nextrush]

What we learn from this court action involving a man arrested after the others in the Oregon Standoff (and not facing trial with the large group of 25) is that the surveillance cameras taken down by LaVoy Finicum back in January several miles away from the wildlife refuge were indeed federal government surveillance cameras.

There was no curiousity in the MSM at the time about this and no willingness to follow up on what LaVoy told them about the cameras.

There was speculation in this forum that those cams belonged to a local utility company, but like LaVoy said they were federal spy cameras.

LaVoy was right about the spy cams set up on the highway north of the refuge and just south of Burns.

[wita]

...and apparently there is still no interest, but anyone being prosecuted for murder? I didn’t think so.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Govt assassination are not considered murder by the g0vt or their lackeys in the propaganda unit.

The fbi does only three things.

1. Investigate, but only those things that further their cause.

2. Arrest, as long as your poor white and not guilty

3 their specialty as shown at Waco and Ruby Ridge, And assassinate, their specialty is assassinating honest US Christian Patriots.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I hate to agree but I agree. The FBI is not your friend ever.

If the Wildlife Protesters had played it a little smarter they would have left the cams up and started policing the whole area, spruced it up and maybe painted the building. Its hard to charge somebody with improving govt property.